Quotes from Carlos Castaneda

A man of knowledge chooses a path with a heart and follows it and then he looks and rejoices and laughs and then he sees and knows.

Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

It is best to erase all personal history because that would make us free from the encumbering thoughts of other people

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Learn to see, and then you'll know that there is no end to the new worlds of our vision.

To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Power rests on the kind of knowledge one holds. What is the sense of knowing things that are useless?

We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wide awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance.

Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on

Nothing in this world is a gift. Whatever must be learned must be learned the hard way.

When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.

Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

The things shamans deal with are extremely practical. They break down parameters of normal historical reality. Magical passes are just one aspect of that.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

One ,must have something to die for in order to have something to live for

Only a warrior can survive the path of knowledge because the art of the warrior is to balance the pain of being a man with the wonder of being a man.

I'm never angry at anybody! No human being can do anything important enough for that. You get angry at people when you feel that their acts are important. I don't feel that way any longer.

You say you need help. Help for what? You have everything needed for the extravagant journey that is your life.

The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

In the universe there is an immeasurable, indescribable force which shamens call intent, and absolutely everything that exists in the entire cosmos is attached to intent by a connecting link.

Warriors do not win victories by beating their heads against walls, but by overtaking the walls. Warriors jump over walls; they don't demolish them.

Any path is only a path, and there is no affront to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.